Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ripple of muffled applause swept across the gloved and mittened crowd. Sitting in a little knot of satellite diplomats, Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin looked stonily ahead...
...British statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
China will be Thursday morning's topic. Professors John K. Fairbank and Rupert Emerson will join with Edwin O Reischauer, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, in a symposium on the Chinese situation. Harold J. Berman and Alex Inkeles of the Russian Research Center will talk about the U.S.S.R. at the afternoon session...
Veteran Adman Bruce Barton had figured out a sure-shot means of cracking the Iron Curtain: bombard Russia with Sears Roebuck catalogues. "If that day ever comes," he told a San Francisco salesmen's convention, "we will not need any longer to fear Communism. No ordinary Russian ever suspected such a wealth of wonderful and desirable objects exists anywhere in the world as the Sears catalogue presents...
Today, 68-year-old Bishop Dibelius is again fighting for freedom of the Church-this time, in the Russian zone of Germany, against the Communists. His fearless words, in & out of the pulpit in Berlin, have made him the outstanding spokesman of Protestantism in eastern Germany. By electing him, the Bielefeld delegates have thrown the whole weight of their support to the Church in the east...